Новости за 09.05.2016

Every year the Military Photographers of the Year Awards bring to light scenes that would go unnoticed or forgotten had it not been for the quick shutter finger and sharp eyes of the men and women behind the camera.

Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman might be on his way to a prison he can't escape.

The Islamic State group’s top military commander in the battle-worn Anbar Province was killed Friday in an airstrike, a Pentagon spokesman said.

The United States is stepping up the fight to stop the Islamic State's trade in looted Syrian antiquities.

The State Department can find no emails to or from a former Hillary Clinton aide who worked for the agency and also managed Clinton's private computer server while she served as secretary of state, the government said in a new court filing on Monday.

How much leeway should members of the uniformed, active-duty military have to express themselves — photographically, politically or otherwise? The best answer, grounded in military regulations and the First Amendment, indicates that the cadets have not violated the letter or spirit of the law and should not be subject to sanction.

A U.S. Air Force member has been accused in Connecticut of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl he met online.

The House may weigh in next week on whether women must register for the military draft.

The Army Special Forces unit that fought its way into the Afghan city of Kunduz after it was seized by the Taliban in October initially did so without proper maps, according to recently declassified documents.

The new commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command says an international coalition of special forces fighting Islamic State extremists must cooperate more closely and "adapt faster than the enemy."

A brawl at a nightclub early Sunday morning ended in the arrest of 13 U.S. soldiers and the hospitalization of several others, according to Italian media.

Locating on a map the 26 African nations represented at the 6th annual African Air Chiefs Symposium would be challenging for all but advanced geography students.

A brash, crime-fighting mayor who’s expressed doubts about renewed U.S.-Philippine military ties strongly led an unofficial vote count in Monday’s presidential election, while the son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos led in the vice presidential race.

There was a prince, a president and a first lady — but they weren’t even the most interesting people in the room Sunday afternoon.

Three Afghans have been arrested in connection with an apparent insider attack at a military base in Kandahar that left two Romanian soldiers dead and a third injured, the Romanian military said Monday.

The bombing offered a dismal reminder that even though a military crackdown has sharply reduced Islamist violence in Pakistan over the last two years, civilians continue to represent soft targets.

As the undersecretary of health for the Department of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin is responsible for the health care of nearly 8.8 million vets. He commands 168 medical centers and 1,600 clinics from Philadelphia to the Philippines, and oversees a $68.6 billion budget.

Nobody — even in the Western intelligence community — compiles transcripts. Nor do we know which elements of the Russian message are effective, who believes them and why.

As with the Iran nuclear agreement — in which China (and Russia) played a constructive role — the goal would be to buy time and prevent a deteriorating situation from getting worse.

Two opposition monitoring groups are reporting multiple air raids on a rebel-held area and shelling of government-controlled parts of the northern city of Aleppo hours before a five-day cease-fire was to expire.

The United States said Monday that a new agreement with Russia would replace localized, piecemeal cease-fires in Syria with a revived, nationwide truce, as world leaders struggled to get faltering peace talks back on track.

Raising the stakes in Britain's European Union membership debate, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday that leaving the bloc would increase the risk of war in Europe.

With his Social Democratic party in disarray after the latest stinging election loss, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann resigned Monday, citing lack of support for his policies within his own party.

Iran test-fired another ballistic missile, the latest in a spate of tests following the implementation of the nuclear deal with world powers earlier this year, according to a report Monday by the country's semi-official Tasnim news agency.

Iran's defense minister issued a vague denial after a media outlet close to the elite Revolutionary Guard said Monday that it had test-fired a ballistic missile with a range of 1,250 miles two weeks ago.